I'm Gregory Warner. This is Rough translation.

A show about how something familiar in the United States might get translated in some other part of the world.

Last winter, NPR Pakistan correspondent Dia Hadid,

whom more often is covering terrorism and the Taliban and Malala,

paid a visit to an afternoon tea party in the Pakistani city of Lahore.

A tea party hosted by the Jane Austin Society of Pakistan.

Imagine stepping off a noisy Pakistani street into an 18th century British drawing room.

The tea cups are white bone china. The bookshelves are lined with leather volumes.

Women are in period costume.

Made wheels out of trolley that's filled with delights from Jane Austin's time.

These are some scones with clotted cream.

And because this is Pakistan, Pakistani tea,

there's some fried chicken and some salty spicy tidbits to also snack on.

Just for a little zing.

The founder of this society is Lalene Sikera.

She's hovering over the trolley, fanning her long hair with a black lace fan.

She's keeping one eye on the guests and another on her three children.

There's Misha, Isha, and Amal.

Misha's studying opera.

Okay ladies.

And Lalene holds a Jane Austin themed quiz.

Yeah, everybody here has to take part.

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